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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

Samuel Adams

If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a

Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

Daniel Webster

The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)

Niccolo Machiavelli

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Dr. Carl Sagan

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention

Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973)

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

Hugo Black (1886-1971)

Hugo Black

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

James Madison (1751-1836)

James Madison

A Constitution should be short and obscure

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity

Henry Clay (1777-1852)

Henry Clay

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it

Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)

Felix Frankfurter

“A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the Legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the constitution ought to be preferred to the statute.”

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)

Alexander Hamilton

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race

Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

Calvin Coolidge

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

Edward Gibbon

The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right .

James Madison (1751-1836)

James Madison

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